Legislation
Free access to the laws that bind us?
Heather Brooke who blogs on FoI issues on Your Right to Know writes today in Technology Guardian about the Statute Law Databaseas part of its Free Our Data campaign under the headline “Access denied to the laws that govern us”. It’s true the publiccontinues to bedenied access to the SLD which has been some 10 […]
Statute Law Database – timetable
We are in Phase 2 of the public pilot for the SLD, which runs till 8 September. I am a Phase 2 trial user. As to the remaining timetable, Tony Hopkins, head of the SPO, reports: The last phase (3) of the pilot is scheduled to be completed by the end of October 2006. This […]
New legislation feeds
At long last OPSIis producing RSS feeds of latest legislation. The feeds only include legislation added to the sitein the last 3 days, which is fine if you’re collecting and aggregating the data in your feed reader or otherwise, butnot much useif youare viewing the feed unaggregated.
First peek at the Statute Law Database
I now have access to the SLD for Phase 2 of the Public Pilot which runs from today for 5 weeks. Phase 3 will extend the public user base to over 100 but there’s no indication how long this will last, norof the timetable for the final evaluation, modifications and publication. Will keep you posted […]
And finally, the consolidation
After a 10-year wait the DCA has finally released a version of the Statute Law Database. Even this announcementwas late (released today): An on-line enquiry service for the statute law database was launched for government staff on 31 May 2006. Staff can find out how to access it by contacting our statutory publications helpdesk. We […]
The Statute Law Database – the final mile
Tony Hopkins, Head of the Statutory Publications Office at the DCA, reports that the SPO has successfully completed the pilot for the Statute Law Database government service enquiry system. The final evaluation is being concluded now and it will go live in April. The pilot for the public version will start in May. Judging from […]
Statute Law Database – from the horse’s mouth
Further to the last post, according to the DCA: our replacement [editorial] system went live … last week and we are busy converting in excess of 27,000 documents to XML format. We are also working with a supplier [TSO] to develop the enquiry service database that we expect to be able to pilot, within the […]
The Statute Law Database – still just around the corner
Recent reports emanating from a KableNET.com news story suggest that “the Department for Constitutional Affairs is planning a new online database of UK primary and secondary legislation”. Informed observers will know that the Statute Law Database has been just around the corner since at least 1998. In fact the news is that TSO (formerly The […]
The road to free law
Published in the Solicitors Journal, October 2000 [links updated] As most practitioners will be aware, there exists no freely available, comprehensive and up-to-date database of UK law on the internet, but progress has been made. The Statute Law Database? There is no sign yet of the Statute Law Database. A note on the Lord Chancellor’s […]
